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Oct 20, 2014On his first album of new material in eight years, the Michigan rocker is in good form.
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Oct 14, 2014The first half doesn’t downshift for a second, plowing through muscular rockers with the spit of his prime.
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Oct 14, 2014The singer's personality emerges more forcefully on his originals.
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Oct 14, 2014There’s plenty of meat-and-potatoes rock and blues here for you to chow on and wash down with your favorite domestic beer.
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UncutDec 4, 2014Highlights dim somewhat, though, with the earnest and/or bombastic originals on the album's second half. [Jan 2015, p.78]
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Oct 22, 2014At 69, Seger is just as ruggedly introspective as he was in his heavy-bearded Seventies.
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Oct 14, 2014It’s encouraging that Seger is expanding his boundaries, especially this late in life. But a few more representative tough rockers interspersed in the album’s disappointing second half would have helped what starts out like a revitalized return to form from--here’s that car/Detroit metaphor again--running out of gas.
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Oct 14, 2014While there's some charm in the fact that Seger is loose enough to keep his ends untied, Ride Out is hobbled by that exacting production: conceptually, it's something of a ragged mess and it'd benefit from sounding like one.